A little over two years ago I sent a facility license renewal application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Their response letter arrived, at the wrong address, about a month ago. They took two years to get around to our application. And guess how long they gave us to respond to their demands for "more information"? Thirty days.
I'd be more sympathetic (but not that much more) to these bureaucrats' pleas for more tax dollars to be spent on them if they were doing even a halfway decent job on what they're supposed to be doing. But they don't even do that, so throwing more money at them seems to be like throwing good money after bad. Would you spend more on your neighborhood mechanic to fix your car if he spent hundreds or thousands and still wanted more to get the job done? I'd take my business elsewhere, but with the feds, for some things, they won't let us do that...
I've worked with the DOE and the NRC here in Oak Ridge, and I know for a fact that they never make a mistake. It's obvious to me that between the time you sent the application to the NRC and the time they mailed it back to you, you moved the facility. There can be no other explanation.
/sarcasm